" EarthLink Subpoenaed for Customer Records When Anonymous Web Posting Reveals Bar Questions
" By R. Robin McDonald Fulton County Daily Report 04-20-2007
" The National Conference of Bar Examiners is hunting for the anonymous person who published 41 questions from the 2006 Multistate Bar Examination on an Internet blog within hours of taking the exam last year.
" The conference -- which develops and distributes the national portion of the biannual bar exam, called the MBE -- asserts in federal court documents that whoever posted the questions on
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infringed the MBE copyright and disregarded instructions that prohibit exam-takers from disclosing exam questions and answers. ... " In a letter to EarthLink's legal department that was attached to the subpoena, Fulbright & Jaworski senior associate Caroline M. Mew stated that the firm has already successfully subpoenaed Google, from which it obtained the Internet protocol address of the blogger, and has identified the blogger's server as EarthLink.
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may be power, but communications is the key snipped-for-privacy@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]